Messenger from God

By

Dorothy Rabinowitz

Updated May 21, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

The prospect of yet another film about a serial killer may by now cause viewers to yawn, and who can blame them? Still, "And Along Came a Spider" (Tuesday, 7-8 p.m. EDT, on Cinemax) isn't likely to bore anyone, notwithstanding superficial similarities to other cases of this sort. The victims here were, as is common, in the sex business, their attacker a man so driven by his passion to destroy the drug addicted prostitutes that he had become, he would later report, a kind of addict himself. After a while, he couldn't sleep nights unless he was killing. Poor prostitutes, a murderer willing to tell a...